The images are from the 2001 and 2002 Beaux-Arts Balls in Lexington, Kentucky, organized by Tiffany Broyles, Ben Eilerman, and their fellow students at the University of Kentucky's School of Architecture. The ball is an annual charitable event. Back then, it used to take place in the underground parking garage of the downtown Radisson Plaza Hotel. My camera was set up next to the trash bins in a cavernous loading dock. The subjects, about one hundred of them over the course of an evening, posed between a wall of light in front of them and a barren concrete wall behind their backs, in plain view of the crowds milling by. Deafening rock music reduced communication to vague gesturing; it was freezing cold. Considering this rather less than cozy setting, the subjects showed tremendous poise. Thanks to everyone who participated.